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Announcement: Great news for the owners of the Xbox One and have Xbox 360 games. Microsoft has announced backward compatibility for the Xbox One. It means that those who own Xbox 360 games and have an Xbox One will be able to play their old games on their new console. Without any additional costs, you[…]

If Microsoft wanted to grab a slice of the impending Apple Watch audience, it couldn’t have crafted a better plan than with its just-released Microsoft Band. The company’s first wearable piggybacks off of the style and functions we’re already familiar with in today’s activity trackers. But with nifty features, a more affordable price tag, and[…]

by Ben Gilbert | on Engadget.com | September 19th 2014 at 10:30 am Microsoft announced this week that it’s buying hugely popular game franchise Minecraft for $2.5 billion. For that money, Microsoft gets rights to the game and ownership of its Stockholm, Sweden-based development studio, Mojang. It doesn’t retain the company’s founders or Minecraft‘s infamously outspoken creator, Markus “Notch” Persson. Does that sound like[…]

So many delays, so many games announced for 2015. But these 25 games are still arriving in 2014. Thank the gaming gods! 2014 is well over halfway through, and yet any gamer who’s been paying attention for the last 20 years knows that the best is yet to come. This fall’s loaded release schedule will[…]

Releases this week are: Transcendence for DVD/Blu-Ray and Hercules in theaters. Transcendence Release Date: July 22, 2014 | Warner Bros. Pictures| Rating: PG-13 | DVD/Blu-Ray Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known[…]

Releases this week are: Rio 2 for DVD/Blu-Ray and Planes: Fire & Rescue in theaters. Rio 2 Release Date: July 15, 2014 | 20th Century Fox| Rating: G | DVD/Blu-Ray It’s a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids in “Rio 2,” after they’re hurtled from that magical city to the wilds[…]

Releases this week are: One Piece: Unlimited World Red for PS3, 3DS, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes for Theaters. One Piece: Unlimited World Red Release Date: July 8, 2014 | Bandai Namco | ESRB: T for Teen | PS3, 3DS Luffy and his crew go wild in One Piece:[…]